Senior Backend Engineer

Our Actively Validated Services (AVS) team is scaling up as we seek out innovative thinkers and engineers to join us on our mission to hyperscale Ethereum. Active Validated Services are decentralized and verifiable software as a service products built on EigenLayer. As a member of this team, you will play a critical role in ideating, developing and delivering tools/services created to streamline developer’s paths towards building fast, cheap and reliable verifiability into their products. If you enjoy being challenged by the complexity of new primitives and working on problems for a diverse segment of technical users, we want to hear from you!

Leverage your skills and knowledge of distributed systems to create services and tools that power the world’s most innovative crypto projects. Examples include but are not limited to; observability/monitoring systems to optimize performance, health and staking info between AVS and Operators, SDKs for a diverse range of SaaS categories (Rollups, Coprocessors, zkProofs, TEEs, etc.), and services for Oracles.
Guide developer/builder communities through the creation and management lifecycle of AVS product builds. This includes education, service launches and post launch operations
Research new concepts and implement new ideas/frameworks to optimize developer’s technical journey based on feedback from product, customer support and quality teams.
Proactively contribute to sprint/roadmap planning, processes improvement and product suite strategy
Engage in the team design/code reviews, standups, and agile development processes

BS in Computer Science or related technical field (e.g., physics or mathematics)
5+ years of backend distributed systems experience
2+ years of full life cycle development with Go, Rust or C++
Prior history of delivering service/tooling for scalable and fault tolerant P2P networks in a production setting
Strong understanding of operational maintenance in a web3 environment (product metrics, deploying/managing multiple testnets, etc.)
General understanding of blockchain tech and concepts; signature schemes, hash functions, erasure codes, multi-threaded and parallel computing, etc.